Mantech

ManTech seeks a highly skilled and knowledgeable Lead Agile Practitioner that is responsible for implementing and improving agile practices in the law enforcement community. The ideal candidate will be a passionate advocate for agile methodologies, with a proven track record of guiding teams through agile transformations and enhancing their performance. This position is located in Washington D.C. 

Responsibilities: 

• Work closely with system stakeholders and technical teams to coach and help them understand and execute an approach to evaluating and prioritizing cross-program capabilities and requirements. 

• Provide coaching, feedback, and advice to program staff and government management and staff on Agile processes (SAFe, Scrum and Kanban), practices, and activities using industry best practices.

• Proactively seek opportunities to use process improvement and re-engineering methodologies to facilitate improvements to processes. 

• Apply systems analysis and design methodology assessments to identify technical debt, architectural runway, and efficiency trade-offs against current and proposed/desired cloud-based software system design.

• Develop and support Agile maturity assessments and coaching plans for Solution and Program level teams. 

• Lead PI planning for the program; organize and lead Release Planning events to set release goals, objectives, and roadmap. 

• Foster collaboration across cross-functional teams, ensuring clear communication and alignment on goals and priorities. 

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline. 

• 5+ years of experience acting as an Agile Lead Practitioner on programs with > 100 FTEs using SAFe.

• Agile Coach certification and  SPCT SAFe Practitioner Consultant Trainer certification 

• In-depth expertise of software development life cycle, Agile practices (Kanban, SCRUM, adaptive software development, SAFe 4.5), and design thinking methodologies. 

• Demonstrated experience in continuous process improvement on large scale programs using Agile methods as well as experience in capturing metrics to demonstrate success. 

• Experience creating training materials and conducting training on Agile topics. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience as a certified Scrum Master, certified Product Owner, and/or Release Train Engineer 

• PMI-ACP (Agile Certified Practitioner)

• FinOps certification 

Security Clearance Requirements: 

• Current/Active Top Secret Security Clearance 

Physical Requirements: 

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% 

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer. 

• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.